January 2012
107 posts
“It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us...”
– Robert Goolrick (via misswallflower)
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need...”
– Philip Pullman (via onesunnycloudyday)
“I felt a tremendous distance between me and everything real.”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via misswallflower)
“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.”
– Augustus, The Fault in Our Stars (via rosettes)
“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most...”
– Libba Bray (via misswallflower)
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (via misswallflower)
“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the...”
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1984 by George Orwell (via ireadabook)
“As for my confused impressions they will never be written. There are blanks in...”
– Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (via futurelies)
“The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.”
– E.E Cummings (via u-f-0)
“For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.”
– Ingrid Bengis (via makes-me-smile)
“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page...”
– Cornelia Funke (via ihrtbks)
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without...”
– Albert Camus (via suzywire)
“ Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze...”
– Tori Amos (via creatingaquietmind)
“I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or...”
– The Green Mile (via anditslove)
“I think that the kind of pleasure I would consider as the real pleasure would be...”
– Michel Foucault, from a 1983 interview collected in Politics, Philosophy, Culture (via suzywire)
Books are not banned because they are inherently...
teachingliteracy:
anabundanceofcolor
“Most of the people I have ever met have somebody who they can fall back into...”
– Morrissey (via glitterp0t)
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
– Isadora Duncan (via misswallflower)
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when...”
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via pavorst)
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work...”
– Theodore Roosevelt (via quote-book)
Nothing's better than curling up on a quiet...
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I...”
– Mark Twain (via alovet)
